Potential Titles: Nettle

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And the men on the nettles under the sky - "Anthology of Jugoslav Poetry XII: Royal Converse" transl. by Sir John Bowring

Never kiss a nettle - Calef Brown "Bossy Casey"

Blistering nettles burning harsh - Frances Cornford "The Old Witch in the Copse"

The nettle that nobody trusts - Nathalia Crane "The Gossips"

Love never clung to the nettle - Nathalia Crane "The Gossips"

Across its edge the nettle grows - "The Deserted Home" transl. by Kuno Meyer

And nettles strew the bosom of Abraham - Arthur Davison Ficke "To John Cowper Powys, on His 'Confessions'"

Flints in the shade of tall nettles - Richard Hughes "Tramp (The Bath Road, June)"

Before stumbling into stinging nettles - Janet Kauffman "Dodder Is No Daughter"

Nettles caught on hem and hair - Vandana Khanna "On the Eve of Being Reincarnated"

Weeding out sharp thorns and nettles - Jan Kochanowski "Laments V" transl. and adapted by Dorothea Prall

The nettle keeps vigil about him - John Masefield "The Dead Knight"

Barely freed from the nettles - Pablo Neruda "The Poet" transl. by Jack Schmitt

Nettles seizing at her calves - Caroline Harper New "The Elephant Mother"

Where these nettles grew nettles have always grown - Alfred Noyes "Avicenna's Dream"

Cross-hatchings of the nettle - James Whitcombe Riley "A Barefoot Boy"

Licked a bloodied paw with a nettle tongue - Fran Wilde "The Ghost Tide Chantey: High"

Measureless thickets of nettles - Adam Zagajewski "Childhood"


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